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  1. dannnex

    i wish i could burn gold SO BAD agahagsjwkisahgs

  2. Channelknight Fadran

    Ladies and gentlement of the jury

    This is the famous image of a massive space dust cloud known as the Pillars of Creation, taken by the Hubble Telescope:

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    And this, for your consideration...

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    ...is what it looks like now that Webb has gotten to it.

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Space images > anything else

       

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  3. Spren of Kindness

    So my family's watching Andor.

    I now have a deep desire for a show about a young woman who works in a laundromat who gets involved with the rebellion/revolution, but like.  In a tangential way.  Witnesses uprisings and protests and all that, sees the city get more dystopian and tense over time, but also, still works at the laundromat for basically the whole show, and the plot is more focused on the effects of the rebellion on the main cast than actually overthrowing anything.  

    Who's with me?

  4. Channelknight Fadran

    Shoutouts to humanity for successfully crashing a satellite into an asteroid!

    Y'know... just for the heck of it.

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Lmao ok I get it now

      that being said first results for satellite on google are hurricane Ian looking like an absolute beast

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  5. Channelknight Fadran

    Shoutouts to humanity for successfully crashing a satellite into an asteroid!

    Y'know... just for the heck of it.

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      We…

      what?

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  6. dannnex

    the queen dying is the funniest thing that's happened since the 2019 PSAT

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      What was the 2019 psat?

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  7. Chasmgoat

    Results of the recent polling on the poisoned cup scenarios:
    Poll 1 (which cup would you drink from?):
    about 91% of people selected that they would drink from the cup in front of them. I was expecting it to be closer to 50% so this is very interesting. Out of 66 people, only 6 selected the cup in front of the other person.

    Poll 2 (which cup would you poison?):
    I had far less people this time around, however, roughly 48% of people selected the option saying that they would poison the cup in front of the kidnapper and 52% would poison their own. That is, 15 out of 31 people selected that they would poison the cup in front of the kidnapper.

    I am quite shocked by this and will eventually poll more people and develop it more.
    The majority of people would end up dying when picking the poison for the majority of people who drink.

    anyway, thank you for participating in the surveys! 
    (for legal purposes, I am not saying that you should use this information to poison people)

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Fadran I don’t think that’s the point of poison :P

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  8. DramaQueen

    Wooooo 110 notifs and all but one of the ones that show up in the pop-up box were status updates

    Any important stuff that I need to know about?

     

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Oh sorry two of those were mine. One was about my cat, the other was ‘hey I’m here again’.

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  9. ashwastaken

    Drop ap calc and get over here you’re not even planning on a math major

  10. Vapor

    I got access to DALL-E! The first thing I searched for was "Brandon Sanderson riding a parrot" and I got this

     

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    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      ohhhhh my brother has accses to this imma ask him for "evil, affable sword"

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  11. dannnex

    episode 2 of Rings of Power is also banger

    i'm loving each of these plotlines

    spoilers:

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    one thing that I think this show is doing really well is taking very very classic tropes and twisting them

    for example, we have the classic "yearning" type plotline
    your classic "farmboy" type, right
    "what if there's more beyond our little slice of civilazation" etc etc etc
    so naturally the next step is a Call to Action

    and lemme tell you, having a meteor crash, only to find a naked man inside, is one HECK of a call

    it's not even really twisting the format exactly
    it's just doing it in a very original way
    and i love it

    also i have no idea who that guy is
    i feel like they're setting it up for a reveal
    so we must know who he is already
    i'm probably just not well versed enough in tolkien lore to figure it out

    my first guess was tom bombadil, simply because he's fitting the "very weird old man" vibes
    but iirc, tom was all about nature n stuff, so that whole "killing fireflies" thing wouldn't be his vibe really
    also i think i remember him being like
    some sort of higher eternal being
    like he has always existed and always will
    so the suddenly appearing from a meteor and not remembering anything doesn't seem to fit either

    my next guess would be...some sort of wizard?
    falling from the sky in a meteor does seem like the way a wizard would be born
    i know that there's supposed to only be 5 wizards or something
    and they're like maiar or whatever
    maybe this is showing one of them being created by the tolkien god or smthn

    he's just credited as "the stranger" so that doesn't help much

    yeah idk
    i feel like this is definitely something that could be figured out rn
    i just don't have the knowledge of tolkien lore to do it

    aaaaaaaaanyway this was supposed to be a review, not theorizing and speculation

    uh yeah
    i thought it was great
    i am enjoying all 4 of the plotlines at about equal levels at the moment. they each have enough mystery or action that i don't really prefer one over another.

    i am loving the lost at sea bit though
    i love sea monsters
    like, look at all the crazy megafauna tolkien has on land. dragons, ents, trolls, etc etc
    imagine what crazy things would be in the ocean depths.
    imagine if it was analagous to our own world, where we have pretty normal looking surface creatures and absolute nightmare fuel down in the depths.
    Tolkien already has crazy nightmare fuel on the surface.
    i want to know what's down there. 

    that plotline is another good example of them taking classic tropes and being very original with it. Galadriel is building a party. And the first member was met, not in a tavern, but by accidentally stumbling into each other in the middle of the ocean

    very original, and very enjoyable

     

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      do i need to watch real lotr first or no? im sorta sceptical of amazon anyways and i feel like i need to watch the movies even if i havent read the books

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  12. Turtle

    I have 201 notifs.

    Also they/them pronouns pls lol

  13. Turtle

    I uh.... don’t know? 
     

    hi.

    uh

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    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Friar, no I forgot my password lol. 
       

      and yeah, hi guys!

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  14. Turtle

    I uh.... don’t know? 
     

    hi.

    uh

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    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      I guess?

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  15. Mat

    Mat

    You know that moment where you look at your IRL friends and are like, 'why am I friends with these people'?

    And then you remember the Shard, and how you've never thought that.

    And then you remember the good things about those IRL people.

    And then you don't know what to think.

    Well

    I'm glad I have both.

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Well you see, I switched schools right before the pandemic (like, in summer break I moved) so I know literally no one in my school. Basically, I dont have a social life outside of the shard. So no, haven’t thought that because I dont have friends IRL. 

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  16. Goob

    Going to take a break day today. I'm not going to stop replying, but I'm going to try to not feel obligated to check the Shard every five minutes so I can actually go play some of those games I payed good money for. For now, though, I'm going to go watch the new Mandalorian episode.

  17. Vapor

    Look at this beauty... 

     

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      That end... 

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  18. Channelknight Fadran

    I’m going to disappear for a little while

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    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      If you take off the plastic cover part, there's a map of Roshar. 

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  19. Chasmgoat

    I just took a PSAT and my brain stopped working halfway through because I started craving an omelet.

    The other half I was craving to get back to reading SA.

    I still want an omelet... Like, really badly.

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Can anyone give me a good omelet recipe? 

      You made me really hungry. 

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  20. Channelknight Fadran

    I will pay handsomely for drawings of the Iconar Collective characters.

     

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Ok! Yay! I like drawing! (Please note that this is note a promise because school... but I wanna do this.) 

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  21. Mat

    Mat

    Thanks guys :wub:

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  22. Turtle

    I finished dawnshard!! Eeeeeeee

     

    Oh my gosh

     

    Ok wow its so good

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      I hope we get a Rysn pov.

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  23. Turtle

    I finished dawnshard!! Eeeeeeee

     

    Oh my gosh

     

    Ok wow its so good

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Its just... so good. I want more. 

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  24. Mat

    Mat

    My 8-year-old brother just dug this up from our flower bed:

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    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Daaaaang! Wow! Imagine if it is a dinosaur!

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  25. Experience

    So. I think I'm ready to start easing back into RP's. Which one should I rejoin first?

    1. Turtle

      Turtle

      Alleyverse! Maybe? 

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